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Published in final edited form as: J Pain Symptom Manage. 2014 Jun 26;49(2):192–202. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2014.06.003

Table 1.

Symptoms in Early and Late Stage Lung and Colorectal Cancer (N=5422)

Symptom	Presence of Symptom N (%)
	Lung Cancer (N=2411)		Colorectal Cancer (N=3011)
	Early Stage (N=1295)	Late Stage (N=1116)	Early Stage (N=2426)	Late Stage (N=585)
Any Symptom	1272 (98.2%)^a	1100 (98.6%) ^b	2151 (88.7%) ^a, ^c	544 (93.0%)^b, ^c
Pain	756 (58.4%) ^a	650 (58.2%) ^b	939 (38.7%)^a, ^c	269 (46.0%)^b, ^c
Fatigue	964 (74.4%) ^a, ^c	885 (79.3%)^b, ^c	1519 (62.6%) ^a, ^c	402 (68.7%)^b, ^c
Depressive symptoms	1030 (79.5%)^a, ^c	935 (83.8%) ^c	1717 (70.8%) ^a, ^c	462 (79.0%) ^c
Nausea/vomiting	426 (32.9%) ^c	481 (43.1%) ^c	786 (32.4%) ^c	276 (47.2%) ^c
Cough	1055 (81.5%)	939 (84.1%)	N/A	N/A
Dyspnea	1052 (81.2%)	890 (79.8%)	N/A	N/A
Diarrhea	N/A	N/A	1015 (41.8%)	272 (46.5%)
Total	6555	5880	8127	2225

^a

P<0.01 Comparison between early stage lung and early stage colorectal.

^b

P<0.01 Comparison between late stage lung and late stage colorectal.

^c

P<0.01 Comparison between early stage and late stage within cancer type.